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Re: st: adding or counting values as an array
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: adding or counting values as an array
Date
Thu, 6 Oct 2011 08:41:51 +0100
As yet another way, see the -egen- function -anycount()-, to be called
with values 0 and 1 separately. However, this ignores any observation
in which any of these variables is missing.
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 8:20 AM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> gen ones = 0
> gen zeros = 0
>
> qui foreach v of var y2006q_1-y2010q_3 {
> replace ones = ones + (`v' == 1)
> replace zeros = zeros + (`v'' == 0)
> }
>
> If there are no missings,
>
> egen ones = rowtotal(y2006q_1-y2010q_3)
> gen zeros = <number of variables> - ones
>
> The yearwise calculation is a variation on the same theme.
>
> See also SJ-9-1 pr0046 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
> Speaking Stata: Rowwise
> (help rowsort, rowranks if installed) . . . . . . . . . . . N. J. Cox
> Q1/09 SJ 9(1):137--157
> shows how to exploit functions, egen functions, and Mata
> for working rowwise; rowsort and rowranks are introduced
>
> For most Stata analyses, -reshape long- is advised.
>
> On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 6:49 AM, Daniel Exeter <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> In Stata 11 (win7, 64bit), I have a dataset with quarterly observations of events from 2006 to 2011.
>> Each field is named y2006_q1, y2006_q2 .. y2011_2
>>
>> The data is dichotomous (0/1) and I want to know:
>> -for the entire period (q1 2006 to q3 2011) and separately for each year
>> - how many quarters each event was observed
>> - how many quarters each event was not observed
>>
>>
>> is there an easy way to code something that would do this:
>>
>> gen included = sum (yr20*) if yr20* ==1
>> gen excluded = count (yr20*) if yr20* ==0
>>
>> and
>>
>> gen inc06 = sum (yr2006*) if yr2006 ==1
>> gen exc06 = count(yr2006*) if yr2006 ==0
>>
>
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